(Reuters) – Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin cruised through the opening round of the 100 meters at the U.S. trials on Thursday as America’s top sprinters launched their bids for August’s world championships. Former world champion Gay, the year’s fastest man, won h... More »
(Reuters) – Fox Sports has signed a 12-year contract to carry the new Big East basketball conference, the first major sports rights agreement it has entered since announcing its new national cable channel to compete with ESPN. Terms of the deal were not disclo... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The National Football League and General Electric Co are teaming up to improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries amid growing concerns about sports-related concussions in youth and professional sports. On Monday they announced ... More »
(Reuters) – Sunday’s close Super Bowl contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers failed to beat last year’s game in total viewers, CBS Corp said on Monday. An average of 108.41 million viewers tuned in, compared with 111.3 million a year ... More »
(Reuters) – Time Warner Cable Inc said on Monday it will carry the new Los Angeles Dodgers television channel, outbidding Fox Sports, which held the rights to show Dodgers games for more than a decade. The Dodgers ownership group will control the channel, beco... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – NBC briefly tore down the digital wall protecting its Olympics coverage on Thursday and permitted consumers without a pay TV subscription to watch live online a much-anticipated race starring American swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Locht... More »
(Reuters) – NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus gave an impassioned defense of the network’s Olympics coverage on a conference call Thursday, but conceded some of the criticism leveled at the network has been “fair.” Lazarus, along with NBC Research Preside... More »
GNIEWINO, Poland (Reuters) – Ten Real Madrid players will pull on the shirts of Spain, Portugal and Germany in this week’s Euro 2012 semi-finals, the latest reminder of the clout wielded by the world’s richest soccer club by income. Cristiano Ronaldo, the worl... More »
